Edgefield County ScArchives Military Records.....Sellars, Howell October 1832
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension Application Of Howell Sellars, Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll 215, Application #S31357
October 17, 1832, Sangamon County, Illinois, Howell Sellars, aged seventy years 
next March:
	“I performed a tour of a little more than a month as a volunteer 
militia man under Captain Arthur Simpkins in the years (I think) 1776 in May 
and June. We marched from Edgefield County, SC to East Florida against the 
British and Tories. Our general was ____ Williamson, our colonels, Beard and 
Winn, and Major Pickens. We were to have marched to St. Augustine, but a 
disagreement took place between our general and the regular general and we were 
ordered back.”

	“Also in the fall of the same year, entered the service again as a 
volunteer in the South Carolina militia under the command of Captain John Ryan, 
and remained in service under him until some time in July of the next year, 
some more than six months. During this tour we marched from Edgefield County 
(my residence during all my services) to Savannah, GA against the British, but 
before we arrived they had taken the place, and we met them on the way.”

“We then turned back, marched to Augusta, GA, and there crossed the river 
Savannah into South Carolina and encamped opposite Augusta and saw the British 
enter the place. Here we remained until a General Ashe of North Carolina came 
to the same place, when the British left the place and Ashe followed them to 
Briar Creek in Georgia, and was there defeated by them. During our encampment 
at this place, I was one of a party of about 200 who were ordered against the 
Creek Indians in Georgia, and we had a battle with them on a creek called Rocky 
Comfort, in which 8 Indians were killed and our Major Ross was wounded, of 
which he died.”

	“We then marched from this encampment to Georgia, towards Savannah and 
crossed into South Carolina again at Savannah Ferry and from there to Stono 
Ferry on Ashley River where the British, who were protected by breastworks and 
entrenchments, and we had therefore to withdraw. At this place, I was taken 
sick and sent home, I think in July 1777.”

“I also performed two other tours, one under Captain Nathan White, I think in 
the fall of 1777, of a little more than one month. During this tour we marched 
from Edgefield County, SC to Savannah, and I was at the siege of that place by 
our troops, while the British had possession of it. In an attempt to storm the 
place, General Pulaski was killed. The other under Captain James ?Corsey? in 
the year 1778. Under him, I continued in service for about one month. During 
this tour we marched in pursuit of the British to Ashley River in South 
Carolina where we joined General Greene’s army. In this service we had no 
fighting.”

Interrogatory:

Where and in what year were you born?
“In North Carolina, Chatham County, in the month March, 1762.”

Have you any record of your age?
“No.”

Where were you living when called into service, and etc.
	“In Edgefield County, SC, and continued to live there since the war, 
until I came to Tennessee where I resided for upwards of thirty years, and have 
since I left there, lived within this state for two years.”

Were you drafted, or a volunteer, or did you substitute yourself for someone?
	“I was always a volunteer.”

Who were the regular officers that you knew?
	“General Lincoln, General Greene. I do not recollect the names of any 
of the regular colonels or captains, except Captain Moore and Lieutenant 
Prince. They were with us at the encampment opposite Augusta before we went to 
Stono Ferry.”

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